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- Title: Turban and Crown Lost and Regained: Ezekiel 21:29-32 and Zechariah's Zemah (Reprint)
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 205 KB
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The visions and prophecies recorded in the book of Zechariah have long puzzled scholars. (1) Among the more challenging ones are the prophetic sign-acts connected to the appearance of [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] in Zechariah 3 and 6:9-15. Who is this enigmatic figure? What is his relationship to Joshua and the priesthood? In this essay, I will first offer a brief summary of earlier attempts to answer these questions and then proceed to suggest a new interpretation of the data. I will argue that, among other texts, Ezek 21:29-32 (Eng. 21:24-27) presents us with an interpretative key to these two passages from Zechariah. I. PAST INTERPRETATION